CONTENTS
Reading edition
Chronological Table vii
Table of Descent xii
Ch. I The House p. 1
II The Garden and Park 20
III Knole in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth 28
IV Knole in the Reign of James I 48
V Knole in the Reign of Charles I 82
VI Knole in the Reign of Charles II 111
VII Knole in the Early Eighteenth Century 152
VIII Knole at the End of the Eighteenth Century 176
IX Knole in the Nineteenth Century 201
Appendix 221
Index 223
xivThe dome of Knole, by fame enrolled,
The Church of Canterbury,
The hops, the beer, the cherries there,
Would fill a noble story.
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